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American Foreign Policy Towards the Colonels' Greece - Jonathan Swarts - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book seeks to comprehensively analyze and document U.S. foreign policy toward a strategic Cold War ally that posed a stark challenge to the traditionally-stated U.S. preference for democracy and political freedom.

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Marxism’s Ethical Thinkers - - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

In Marxism''s uneasy relationship with ethics a small number of prominent theorists considered it imperative to highlight the moral principles implicit in Marx''s social theory and to develop these ethics in the light of changing conditions. They developed a humanistic Marxism in stark contrast to the crude ''end justifies the means'' approach of Stalinism. This collection brings together analyses by leading scholars on those thinkers who made significant contributions to ethical thinking within the Marxist tradition - Kautsky, Bloch, Fromm, Marcuse, Lefebvre, Macpherson and Heller.

DKK 423.00

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Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars - - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This volume examines conflicts over food and their implications for European societies in the first half of the Twentieth century. Food shortages and famines, fears of deprivation, and food regulations and controls were a shared European experience in this period. Conflicts over food, however, developed differently in different regions, under different regimes, and within different social groups. These developments had stark consequences for social solidarity and physical survival. Ranging across Europe, from Scandinavia and Britain to Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union, this volume explores the political, economic and cultural dynamics that shaped conflicts over food and their legacies.

DKK 423.00

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Innocence and Rapture - K. Ohi - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Taking as its focus the erotic child in decadent aesthetics, this book explores the sexual and political stakes of an aestheticistexperience of rapture. Ohi examines the power of the work of art to transport, to disorient, to move, to extort the equivocal pleasuresof self-loss. He also explores how the beautiful child offers partisans of ''art for art''s sake'' an emblem for the ecstatic and erotic, even the queer possibilities of art. Aestheticism''s erotic child is thus in stark contrast to the innocent child of today''s ideology, who secures the claims of identity against the very disorientations celebrated by aestheticism. Articulating aesthetic transport through the desiring and desired child, aestheticism interrogates the ideology underpinning sexual oppression.

DKK 426.00

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At the Edges of Liberalism - S. Aschheim - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The essays in this volume seek to confront some of the charged meeting points of European-especially German-and Jewish history. All, in one way or another, explore the entanglements, the intertwined moments of empathy and enmity, belonging and estrangement, creativity and destructiveness that occurred at these junctions. These encounters typically unfolded within an uneasy continuum of conflict and co-operation, conformity and resistance, refashioning or maintaining personal and collective dimensions of identity. Clearly, they never allowed for the luxury of indifference. Yet it would be wrong to present meetings of this kind as exclusively confrontational, as stark either-or choices. Life at the junctions may be vulnerable and insecure but it can also yield fresh angles of perception and new opportunities. If these boundary situations generated a modicum of friction, confusion and anxiety, and at times even murderousness, they also produced new alliances and friendships, creative projects and novel fusions and formations of identity. In exploring these dramatic moments in history, Steven Aschheim provides valuable new insights into the history of Europe, Israel, and global Judaism.

DKK 426.00

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Going South - D. Atkinson - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

A provocative look at how and why Britain has fallen into decline from being a superpower in 1914 to being a third world economy in 2014 by two of Britain''s leading Economists journalists With a second recession looming, Britain is facing a moment of truth. Going South examines how the leader of the Industrial Revolution came to exhibit the features of a "developing country." The symptoms of this vertiginous plunge in the world''s rankings are already starkly apparent: a chronic balance of payment deficit, a looming shortage of energy and food, a dysfunctional labor market, volatility in economic growth, and a painful vulnerability to external events. And if these are the big indicators of imminent relegation to the Third World, many smaller ones are too numerous to fully catalogue. So stark is the evidence that it is our contention that Britain''s looming relegation is not in doubt. The names change with intellectual fashion-the developing world, the Third World, less-developed countries, "emerging markets," or simply the Global South. But the destination is the same. Britain is going south-rapidly.Assuming that Britain faces up to its plight, there is no easy model for the redevelopment of the national economy. Whichever path is taken will be a hard one. The age of the quick fixes is over.

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